From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:56:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:55:50 -0500 Received: from twilight.cs.hut.fi ([130.233.40.5]:44579 "EHLO twilight.cs.hut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 07:55:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:55:22 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: Andre Tomt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , jim@browsermedia.com Subject: Re: Which kernel fixes the VM issues? Message-ID: <20010107145522.K1265@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20010107140607.J1265@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from andre@tomt.net on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:47:39PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:47:39PM +0100, you [Andre Tomt] claimed: > > > This issue is fixed in 2.2.18 AFAIK (never seen it since). > > > > Nope. > > > > It's fixed 2.2.19pre2 (which includes the Andrea Arcangeli's vm-global-7 > > patch that (among other things) fixes this.) > > I stand corrected. Still, with almost-vanilla 2.2.18 (+ ow patches) on a > highly loaded webserver has not shown any "LRU block list corruption" > crashes in over 6 weeks, even when it usually died after a week on 2.2.17 > with the same error (if memory serves me right). Could be the system tuning > that has "fixed" this by making the usual load not - err - load the server > as much as before. I'm not sure about the "LRU block list" thing (it may be another issue), but AFAIK it's vm-global that fixes the try_to_free_pages thing. It's also my experience, that the try_to_free_pages is completely gone after applying vm-global to otherwise identical 18pre. > > You can also apply the vm-global-patch to 2.2.18 if you like. > > Yep, as stated in my previous mail :-) -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/